Bringing trusted environmental transparency to beauty.
An independent non-profit measuring the full environmental footprint of beauty products - from ingredient sourcing through to disposal.
mission & vision
How do you tell a genuine environmental improvement from a marketing claim?
The same question kept coming up across the beauty industry. Brands were investing in less environmentally harmful ingredients, reduced packaging and lighter materials, but with no shared way to measure, no two products could be compared.
EcoBeautyScore came about as a collective answer — a non-profit working with cosmetics manufacturers and life cycle scientists, grounded in the EU's Product Environmental Footprint methodology, to measure and score any beauty product along its whole lifecycle, from sourcing to disposal.
We want an industry where environmental performance is measured the same way everywhere, disclosed openly, and improved over time — where shoppers can compare and brands can prove progress with evidence, not adjectives.
"The rules of what is measured, how it is scored, how it is reported — are set independently of any single member's commercial interest."
our values
The EcoBeautyScore Association is guided by the following values:
Journey so far
From a shared ambition to a global environmental scoring system for beauty.
Creating a credible, science-based way to measure the environmental impact of beauty products was never going to happen overnight. It required industry collaboration, scientific rigour and a willingness to challenge and refine the way environmental impact is understood.
2021
A common ambition
Leading cosmetics companies and industry organisations come together around a shared goal: to give consumers clear, credible and comparable information about the environmental impact of beauty products.
2022
Building the science
More than 52 cosmetic companies and 22 trade associations from across the world work together with life cycle analysis experts to develop a robust, PEF-based methodology and underpinning database. The approach is one of the first examples of large-scale adoption of the European Commission’s PEF methodology.
2023
Testing and refining
The methodology is challenged, tested and refined through extensive expert review and stakeholder consultation. Data, modelling and scoring are continuously improved to make the system both scientifically robust and practical for the beauty industry.
2024
From methodology to system
The EcoBeautyScore methodology and database are translated into a Saas scoring platform, designed to turn complex environmental assessment into a simple, comparable A–E score. The industry consortium evolves into its own legal entity, becoming a non-profit association (‘AISBL’, incorporated in Belgium). Extensive consultation helps strengthen the methodology, governance and transparency of the system.
2025
The score goes live
EcoBeautyScore moves from development into implementation. The platform launches, enabling companies to assess their products and generate EcoBeautyScores. The first product scores are made available on the market, bringing science-based environmental information one step closer to consumers.
Today
Growing together
With more and more cosmetics stakeholders involved across the industry, EcoBeautyScore is becoming a shared reference point for environmental performance in beauty. Brands are using the system to understand their impacts, identify opportunities for improvement and prepare for a future where credible environmental information matters more than ever.
And the journey continues.
Science evolves. Data improves. Regulations develop. And so does EcoBeautyScore. We continue to update and strengthen the methodology, database and scoring system - working with our members, scientific experts and stakeholders to make environmental assessment in beauty ever more robust, relevant and actionable.
Our ambition is simple: better information, better decisions, better-performing beauty products.
Our independence
Built by the industry. Underpinned by independent scientific experts.
Built by the industry. Underpinned by independent scientific experts.
EcoBeautyScore was created through collaboration across the beauty industry and operates as a non-profit association, with a mission to advance a credible, science-based approach to environmental information across the sector.
Our governance is designed to support fair, transparent and collective decision-making. The EcoBeautyScore by-laws provide for equal voting rights for all members, a clear separation between the Association’s management and individual members, and transparent processes for making decisions about the initiative’s governance and strategy.
But credibility cannot come from industry participation alone.
From the outset, we have built independent review and open consultation into the development of the methodology. External life cycle analysis experts have challenged and reviewed the science, while two rounds of public consultation gave stakeholders from across the scientific, regulatory, NGO, consumer and wider sustainability communities the opportunity to scrutinise the approach and contribute to its development. Their feedback has helped us identify limitations, strengthen the methodology and shape priorities for its continued evolution.
Our Independent Scientific Committee brings together independent life cycle assessment specialists from across Europe and beyond. Operating separately from EcoBeautyScore and their respective organisations, the Committee provides scientific oversight and critical guidance on major developments to our methodologies and databases.
Its role is to challenge assumptions, assess scientific developments and help ensure that EcoBeautyScore remains aligned with recognised life cycle analysis principles and the European Commission’s Product Environmental Footprint approach.
Find out more about our Independent Scientific Charter
meet the team
Built by the industry. Underpinned by independent scientific experts.
Jean-Baptiste Massignon
Managing Director
Laurent Gilbert
Scientific Director
Rebekah Lees
Marketing & Business Development Director
Hugo Le Gal
Head of Technology & Customer Success
Julia Santiago de Assis
Sales Associate
Supported by leading external partners
The EcoBeautyScore has been developed with the support and expertise of leading external partners across science, data, technology, governance and legal compliance
- Quantis has supported the development of the EcoBeautyScore methodology and its scientific foundations.
- Capgemini has provided project management and governance support during the consortium phase of the initiative.
- Pilario provides the technology platform that powers EcoBeautyScore scoring.
- Mayer Brown provides legal counsel to help ensure that the Association’s activities comply with applicable antitrust regulations.
- ecoinvent and SPICE contribute to the environmental databases that underpin the methodology.